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Moodle Theme Development

By : Silvina Paola Hillar
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Moodle Theme Development

By: Silvina Paola Hillar

Overview of this book

Theming is one of the main features of Moodle, and it can be used to customize your online courses and make them look exactly how you want them to,according to your target audience. If you have been looking for a book that will help you develop Moodle themes that you are proud of, and that your students will enjoy, then this is the book for you. We start off by introducing Moodle 3 and explaining what it is, how it works, and what tools you might need to create a stunning Moodle theme. We then show you how to choose and change the pre-installed Moodle themes in detailed steps, and explain what Moodle themes are and how they work. Next, we show you how to change an existing theme and test the changes that you have made. You can not only plan the customization of theme, but also tailor it using advanced Moodle theming processes; this book is your one-stop guide to creating your own personalized Moodle 3 theme.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Moodle Theme Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Dedication
Preface

Enabling device mode


We have already installed the Chrome web browser, therefore, we need to run it. After running it, we have to run MoodleCloud or Moodle on-premises on it. Therefore, in this example, we will run MoodleCloud. We will test how it looks on a mobile device. First of all, we will check how we see it in our desktop. Although, the way we see it may differ according to the resolution of the monitor that we have, it will look much different on a mobile device. Follow these steps:

  1. Run Google Chrome.

  2. Run MoodleCloud or Moodle on-premises and log in.

  3. Press the F12 key.

  4. Then the following screen will appear:

  5. Click on Toggle device toolbar, as shown in the following screenshot:

  6. Then the following appears on the right-hand side of the margin (it can also appear beneath the screen):

    Tip

    On the left-hand side of the page, the simulation of a mobile device appears and it shows the MoodleCloud that we are running on our desktop on a mobile device. We can see that the theme looks quite different...